The observation on the lopsided nature of other high profile rivalries is spot on. As is the point that UT/Bama have seldom been at the height of their powers concurrently which lessens national hype.
I’ve said this a hundred times and nobody wants to listen to me but 9 SEC games is a horrible idea and I could write for awhile why. But mainly you cannot take a sport that is at least 70% dependent on schedule as to who wins and compound it. Any year UT played 5 road games and 4 home games I would check out. The only way I would support 9 is if every team played 4 home, 4 away, and one neutral. I can’t see a way that works with 16 teams.
Besides, just have 2 permanents if you stay at 8. It’s what has to happen for a lot of teams. Auburn would lose UGA if it’s only 1 as well. You aren’t playing half the league either way so it doesn’t make any difference.
Hope you are right on the offense brother. 31 points I’d say is almost sure to win it.
If there was a way to save the Alabama game with 8 conference games I’d be all for it. There are ways to do it but for some reason no one has proposed them. At the very least they could do what the Bloated Ten is doing where some teams have a lot of protected games and other teams have none. Like South Carolina. They don’t really have a natural SEC rival. They don’t need any protected games. The Kentucky game for us isn’t really a big deal but it is for them. If they had their choice of one permanent opponent it would be UT. So that’s another thing that has to be considered. But at the same time, what they want in football shouldn’t really be prioritized. We probably won’t find out what they do for sure until the spring meetings next year.
The observation on the lopsided nature of other high profile rivalries is spot on. As is the point that UT/Bama have seldom been at the height of their powers concurrently which lessens national hype.
I’ve said this a hundred times and nobody wants to listen to me but 9 SEC games is a horrible idea and I could write for awhile why. But mainly you cannot take a sport that is at least 70% dependent on schedule as to who wins and compound it. Any year UT played 5 road games and 4 home games I would check out. The only way I would support 9 is if every team played 4 home, 4 away, and one neutral. I can’t see a way that works with 16 teams.
Besides, just have 2 permanents if you stay at 8. It’s what has to happen for a lot of teams. Auburn would lose UGA if it’s only 1 as well. You aren’t playing half the league either way so it doesn’t make any difference.
Hope you are right on the offense brother. 31 points I’d say is almost sure to win it.
If there was a way to save the Alabama game with 8 conference games I’d be all for it. There are ways to do it but for some reason no one has proposed them. At the very least they could do what the Bloated Ten is doing where some teams have a lot of protected games and other teams have none. Like South Carolina. They don’t really have a natural SEC rival. They don’t need any protected games. The Kentucky game for us isn’t really a big deal but it is for them. If they had their choice of one permanent opponent it would be UT. So that’s another thing that has to be considered. But at the same time, what they want in football shouldn’t really be prioritized. We probably won’t find out what they do for sure until the spring meetings next year.